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Shepherd of Hermas — Mandate 1
The available POB edition is a partial translation, not a summary or the complete ancient work. Popular, not Scripture. Artwork interprets literary visions and teaching; it does not establish their portrayals as historical events.
Source and translation notes
The text names Hermas as its narrator. The illustrations do not identify a historical author or supply authenticated portraits.
Existing reader manuscript-image reference: Codex Sinaiticus. Working source: Lightfoot & Harmer 1891 (normalized OCR) · Greek
English witness: People's Open Bible provisional English rendering (Cartha Inc. and contributors) · CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ — for POB project outputs; source editions retain their original licenses
Numbered reading units are modern paragraph divisions, not ancient verse numbers. The available units follow Visions, Mandates, and Similitudes; absent passages are not reconstructed.
- The available edition begins mid-dialogue and ends mid-sentence in Similitude 8.iv; absent passages are not supplied.
Shepherd of Hermas 26:1
Belief and Self-Control
Belief in One God and Self-Control · Shepherd of Hermas 26
Story guide: The command begins with belief in one God, Creator of all, and joins reverence with self-control, righteousness and the conditional promise of life to God.
Open this scene in the reader →1First of all, believe that God is one—the one who created and ordered all things, and made all things out of nonexistence into being, and who contains all things, while he alone is uncontainable. Therefore believe him and fear him; and having feared, exercise self-control. Keep these things, and you will cast off all wickedness from yourself and put on every virtue of righteousness, and you will live to God, if you keep this command.
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